Say To A Girl Quotes

• We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?

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  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Inspiring   Girl   Women  

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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• We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.

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  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl   Ambition   Mutual Support  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

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• One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: "Do you like anyone right now?" - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, "do you like me right now."

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  John Green

  Girl   Real   Book  

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• Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

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  Elisabetta Canalis

  Girl   Insecure   Reality  

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• I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie?

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  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl   Writing   Cookies  

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